Comments on: Move ‘Beyond the Blues’ with Peter Case http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/ Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity Blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sister Julie Ann http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6738 Sister Julie Ann Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:27:54 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6738 Lindsey, thanks for the comment on Peter's song. I would agree...to choose Christ is to choose life knowing Christ is there with us 'through' it all. Peace and all good. Lindsey, thanks for the comment on Peter’s song. I would agree…to choose Christ is to choose life knowing Christ is there with us ‘through’ it all. Peace and all good.

]]> By: Lindsey http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6714 Lindsey Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:01:49 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6714 This song reminded me of part of a quote from Pope John Paul II, about the heart being the place of encounter & where we choose life or death. It's easy to get caught up in the noise and distractions, & often it's hard to not focus on that...but I think our hearts often sing the same song. The call to look 'beyong the blues' in our lives and our hearts, to be able to see and choose Christ. This song reminded me of part of a quote from Pope John Paul II, about the heart being the place of encounter & where we choose life or death. It’s easy to get caught up in the noise and distractions, & often it’s hard to not focus on that…but I think our hearts often sing the same song. The call to look ‘beyong the blues’ in our lives and our hearts, to be able to see and choose Christ.

]]> By: Sister Anne Marie Lom http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6664 Sister Anne Marie Lom Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:46:45 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6664 Having had the opportunity and grace to have shared community life with Sister Sean Marie I can testify to the "peace, joy and great love" of Sister Sean Marie. I was most impressed with you, Sister Sean Marie, never giving up on the students/people most difficult to teach and reach. You showed me the "way out is through" by LIVING it each day. I also like that you said your call did not have a "story book ending". Romanticizing religious life doesn't give a true picture. It is hard work and deep joy... as is anything worthwhile. Thank you for sharing your story! Having had the opportunity and grace to have shared community life with Sister Sean Marie I can testify to the “peace, joy and great love” of Sister Sean Marie.

I was most impressed with you, Sister Sean Marie, never giving up on the students/people most difficult to teach and reach. You showed me the “way out is through” by LIVING it each day.

I also like that you said your call did not have a “story book ending”. Romanticizing religious life doesn’t give a true picture. It is hard work and deep joy… as is anything worthwhile.
Thank you for sharing your story!

]]> By: Sister Sean Marie http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6658 Sister Sean Marie Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:36:33 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6658 This Sunday religious were asked to reconsecrate themselves to the Lord. As I did so, I couldn't help but look back on the fork in the road that was in my path in 1960. I was 21, a college graduate, had a teaching job, apartment, car, friends, travel opportunities, and a wide, wide world that was flashing all the promises of happiness. However, thoughts of becoming a religious had entered my mind during elementary school and high school. When I was a sophomore in college, I told my parents about my desire to become a religious. Now that was a stone wall in capital letters. They were vehemently against any thought of it. So I continued my education and the thoughts of a religious vocation flittered in and out of my thinking. The fork.....yes, the fork was a reality. Choose religious life and know that it would injure family relationships or choose to follow the expectations of parents for your life. No one knows the outcome of the choice when at the road's fork. It takes alot of courage, trust, and endurance to make the choice and persevere. This is true in choosing marriage, single life, or religious life. I wish I could say that it has a story book ending. It doesn't...but for me it brought peace, joy, and a great love for the One I chose to follow and a love for my beautiful community of sisters. I would choose the same fork in the road for I know with all my heart that in carrying out God's will, the grace is always there to lead us into light. Take a good look at the words in this song....it holds alot of hope for the future..."there is no way out but through." This Sunday religious were asked to reconsecrate themselves to the Lord. As I did so, I couldn’t help but look back on the fork in the road that was in my path in 1960. I was 21, a college graduate, had a teaching job, apartment, car, friends, travel opportunities, and a wide, wide world that was flashing all the promises of happiness. However, thoughts of becoming a religious had entered my mind during elementary school and high school. When I was a sophomore in college, I told my parents about my desire to become a religious. Now that was a stone wall in capital letters. They were vehemently against any thought of it. So I continued my education and the thoughts of a religious vocation flittered in and out of my thinking. The fork…..yes, the fork was a reality. Choose religious life and know that it would injure family relationships or choose to follow the expectations of parents for your life. No one knows the outcome of the choice when at the road’s fork. It takes alot of courage, trust, and endurance to make the choice and persevere. This is true in choosing marriage, single life, or religious life. I wish I could say that it has a story book ending. It doesn’t…but for me it brought peace, joy, and a great love for the One I chose to follow and a love for my beautiful community of sisters. I would choose the same fork in the road for I know with all my heart that in carrying out God’s will, the grace is always there to lead us into light. Take a good look at the words in this song….it holds alot of hope for the future…”there is no way out but through.”

]]> By: Sister Sean Marie http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6642 Sister Sean Marie Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:23:26 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6642 I enjoyed this song very much. How true it is that we often experience that there is no way out but through a situation. Life is full of forks in the road but choosing the path of unselfish love leads to joy and hope for the future. Good comments from our blog readers. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed this song very much. How true it is that we often experience that there is no way out but through a situation. Life is full of forks in the road but choosing the path of unselfish love leads to joy and hope for the future. Good comments from our blog readers. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Sister Anne Marie Lom http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6629 Sister Anne Marie Lom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:53:52 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6629 “We hit the fork in the road where we all have to choose Between darkness and light, beyond the blues” These words sent me to a scripture passage: “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." (Deut. 30:19-20) We are never without choices. To choose joy, light, and trust in God is to choose life and blessing. To choose darkness, doubt, confusion is to choose interior death, a curse to our happiness. Looks like this song has sparked much reflection. Thank you for it! “We hit the fork in the road where we all have to choose
Between darkness and light, beyond the blues”

These words sent me to a scripture passage:

“I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” (Deut. 30:19-20)

We are never without choices. To choose joy, light, and trust in God is to choose life and blessing. To choose darkness, doubt, confusion is to choose interior death, a curse to our happiness.

Looks like this song has sparked much reflection. Thank you for it!

]]> By: Sister Julie Ann http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6628 Sister Julie Ann Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:47:53 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6628 If these comments don't want to make you listen to Peter's song again and again. For a song with the title--Beyong the Blues--it really has little focus on 'blues'. Thanks,Cate, Melissa, Jessica, Kristin, Stacy, Maureen and Kelly for your positive, uplifting comments. If these comments don’t want to make you listen to Peter’s song again and again. For a song with the title–Beyong the Blues–it really has little focus on ‘blues’. Thanks,Cate, Melissa, Jessica, Kristin, Stacy, Maureen and Kelly for your positive, uplifting comments.

]]> By: Cate Donze http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6619 Cate Donze Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:48:54 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6619 I really liked the song lyrics. Although I wasn't particularly in love with his voice, I really liked the warm tone of the song. It sounded much more positive and uplifting when he did it than if someone else were to sing it. I really liked the song lyrics. Although I wasn’t particularly in love with his voice, I really liked the warm tone of the song. It sounded much more positive and uplifting when he did it than if someone else were to sing it.

]]> By: Melissa Taylor http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6618 Melissa Taylor Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:54:09 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6618 This is a wonderful song! It is very inspiring to me! This is a wonderful song! It is very inspiring to me!

]]> By: Jessica Ciatti http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/comment-page-1/#comment-6617 Jessica Ciatti Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:35:58 +0000 http://www.fscc-calledtobe.org/living/index.php/2010/02/01/move-beyond-the-blues-with-peter-case/#comment-6617 I thought this song was very interesting. I really enjoyed his voice and the guitar in this song, and I thought that the message was also inspiring. If I hadn's seen the lyrics, I'm not sure that I would have know it was necessarily a Christian song, but when you look at the lyrics, all of the subtle words and phrases stand out so well. I was touched by this song and I like how the line "Love is the road" is in there. I believe love is such a powerful emotion and such a strong way to touch people, and we are constantly feeling God's love and that's the way for us to move "Beyond the Blues". I thought this song was very interesting. I really enjoyed his voice and the guitar in this song, and I thought that the message was also inspiring. If I hadn’s seen the lyrics, I’m not sure that I would have know it was necessarily a Christian song, but when you look at the lyrics, all of the subtle words and phrases stand out so well. I was touched by this song and I like how the line “Love is the road” is in there. I believe love is such a powerful emotion and such a strong way to touch people, and we are constantly feeling God’s love and that’s the way for us to move “Beyond the Blues”.

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